Christie: W.H. didn't tell the truth

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday that the White House needs to explain why it didn’t tell the truth on Obamacare when the president promised people could keep their health care plans.

“The real problem is that people weren’t told the truth. You can remember they were told that they would be able to keep their policies if they like them, and now you hear hundreds of thousands of people across the country being told they couldn’t,” Christie said on “CBS This Morning.” “So the White House needs to square that with what was told to the American people and told to Congress beforehand.”

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The blue-state Republican said he doesn’t regret not establishing a state-run health care exchange in his state even with all the federal exchange website’s problems, and said doing so wouldn’t have changed the issues with the exchanges.

“It wouldn’t have made any difference,” Christie said. “What the federal government wanted us to do in the states was to take on this burden ourselves, without telling us how much it would cost or what authority we would have to actually run our exchanges. That’s why myself and 33 other governors, both Republican and Democrat, said no to a state-run exchange.”

The White House pushed back on an NBC News report Monday night that not only are people having their plans canceled under Obamacare, but that the White House knew that would be the case for years. Spokesman Josh Earnest said the report was actually citing “normal turnover” and Dan Pfeiffer called it “misleading.”